Sentences with phrase «ocean heating events»

The main thing to learn is: (a) the oceans are gradually heating up, along with a hotter atmosphere but (b) on top of that gradual warming we now find extreme ocean heating events.

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In the absence of the knowledge that hurricanes are nothing more that the heat generated by an ocean baking in the Summer heat coupled with the correolis effect, people could be forgiven for assigning cosmic importance to the events.

In addition to the Asia heat wave, those events were the record global heat in 2016 and the growth and persistence of a large swath of high ocean temperatures, nicknamed «the Blob,» in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska.

More frequent and larger changes in the North Pacific High appear to originate from rising variability in the tropics and are linked to the record - breaking El Niño events in 1983, 1998, and 2016 and the 2014 - 2015 North Pacific Ocean heat wave known as «The Blob.»

An unexpected coral bleaching event in the South China Sea shows that reefs can heat up substantially more than the surrounding ocean

Temperatures last year broke a 2015 record by almost 0.2 C (0.36 F), Copernicus said, boosted by a build - up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and by a natural El Nino weather event in the Pacific Ocean, which releases heat to the atmosphere.

The continued top ranking for 2016 may be due in part to El Niño, a cyclical climate event characterized by warmer - than - average waters in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, which generated some of the global heat that year.

When we have a «blue ocean» event, that will greatly increase warming all on it's own — adding as much heating as all our emissions since the beginning of the industrial age!

Contributions to the event arising from changes in ocean heat content were shown to be negligible.

However, lacking global observations of surface mass and ocean heat content capable of resolving year to year variations with sufficient accuracy, comprehensive diagnosis of the events early in the altimetry record (e.g. such as determining the relative roles of thermal expansion versus mass changes) has remained elusive.

While the stratosphere recovers from volcanic events quite quickly, the troposphere takes longer as some heat is transferred into the oceans, where cooling - down and heating back up take time.

ENSO events, for example, can warm or cool ocean surface temperatures through exchange of heat between the surface and the reservoir stored beneath the oceanic mixed layer, and by changing the distribution and extent of cloud cover (which influences the radiative balance in the lower atmosphere).

The same forces that led to the most recent major volcanic event (a devastating 1957 eruption on the island of Faial that sent a wave of refugees to the U.S. and beyond) also make the Azores one of Europe's best destinations for mineral hot springs and geothermally - heated ocean lagoons.

Regardless, I would posit the worsening winter ice formation is as expected given the poles suffer first and winters warm faster than summers, BUT that this is happening within two years of the EN peak, which was my time line in 2015, one wonders if the combination of warm EN - heated Pacific waters (oceans move slowly) and warm air are a trailing edge of the EN effect OR this is signallibg a phase change driven by that EN, or is just an extreme winter event.

ENSO events, for example, can warm or cool ocean surface temperatures through exchange of heat between the surface and the reservoir stored beneath the oceanic mixed layer, and by changing the distribution and extent of cloud cover (which influences the radiative balance in the lower atmosphere).

Balmaseda et al. (Geophysical Research Letters 2013) shows among other things that El Niño events are associated with a strong loss of heat from the oceans.

During La Niña events (with cold ocean surface) the ocean absorbs additional heat that it releases during El Niño events (when the ocean surface is warm).

There's also a number of interesting applications in the evolution of Earth's atmosphere that branch off from the runaway greenhouse physics, for example how fast a magma - ocean covered early Earth ends up cooling — you can't lose heat to space of more than about 310 W / m2 or so for an Earth - sized planet with an efficient water vapor feedback, so it takes much longer for an atmosphere - cloaked Earth to cool off from impact events than a body just radiating at sigmaT ^ 4.

Is it not possible that the polar barometric events act as significant pipelines for the re-emission of the ocean entrapped LW in the first three meters, by transporting the oceanic heat content energy for stellar release?

Stefan seems to be upset about our favoring ocean heat content (OHC) and extreme events.

Those rain events transfered heat from the ocean to the ice.

Further suggestions that D / O events in Greenland are generated by shifts in the North Atlantic ocean circulation seem highly implausible, given the weak contribution of the high latitude ocean to the meridional flux of heat.

The second point is that we have found distinctive variations in global warming with El Niño: a mini global warming, in the sense of a global temperature increase, occurs in the latter stages of an El Niño event, as heat comes out of the ocean and warms the atmosphere.

Given the hiatus the measurements shifted to deep ocean heat, then extreme events and some other aspect.

There are several reasons for this; for example, aerosol emissions have risen, there has been a preponderance of La Niña events at the end of this timeframe, there has been increased heat storage in the deep oceans, and there was also an extended solar minimum.

Recognition has grown in the scientific community that droughts, heat - waves and other catastrophic weather and climate events are not random in occurrence, nor are they caused only by variations in remote ocean temperatures altering large - scale atmospheric circulation.

North Pacific and North Atlantic Ocean temperatures were particularly hot — with a West Coast heat pool driving ocean dead zone events and starfish die - offs aOcean temperatures were particularly hot — with a West Coast heat pool driving ocean dead zone events and starfish die - offs aocean dead zone events and starfish die - offs alike.

If you have 600 years of positive delta S, the ocean giving up heat due to any number of natural events, you would have a long period of negative delta S, recovery.

However, due to the preponderance of La Niñas, heat has been funneled to the deeper ocean layers, and is poised to come back and haunt us in future El Niño events.

Storms and extreme rainfall events have always happened, but with the added heat in the atmosphere and oceans due to greenhouse gas emissions, storms now occur with increasing accumulated energy and higher moisture loading.

Since stipulated a sudden event rather than constant undersea eruptions are occurring all the time, we assume fast transition of heat from ocean floor to surface.

Shortly after an El Niño event there is elevated heat exchange from the upper ocean layers to the cosmos over the tropical Pacific Oocean layers to the cosmos over the tropical Pacific OceanOcean.

After a La Niña event the upper ocean is relatively cool, so it would absorb heat from the atmosphere, rather than emitting it to it.

Steve, is it you belief that events like «ENSO» represent overall changes in heating and cooling of the oceans or represent a change in the movement of warm and cool waters?

Me — The Wong reference says — «The drop in the global ocean heat storage in the later part of 1998 is associated with cooling of the global ocean after the rapid warming of the ocean during the 1997 — 98 El Niño event (Willis et al. 2004).»

Over the past decade, aerosol emissions (which cause cooling by blocking sunlight) have risen, solar activity has been low, there has been a preponderance of La Niña events (which also cause short - term surface cooling), and heat has accumulated in the deep oceans.

While 2016 was the warmest year on the surface, it was only the third warmest year for ocean heat content as the El Niño event that helped 2016 surface temperatures be so warm redistributed heat out of the ocean and into the atmosphere.

«The drop in the global ocean heat storage in the later part of 1998 is associated with cooling of the global ocean after the rapid warming of the ocean during the 1997 — 98 El Niño event (Willis et al. 2004).»

The study says the global ocean heat content record robustly represents the signature of global warming, and is affected less by weather - related «noise» and climate variability such as El Niño and La Niña events.

The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday that last year was the warmest on record by a wide margin, stoked by greenhouse gases and an El Nino weather event that released heat from the Pacific Ocean.

The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday that past year was the warmest on record by a wide margin, stoked by greenhouse gases and an El Nino weather event that released heat from the Pacific Ocean.

If for some reason the Pacific ocean currents did NOT move heat around in the way we identify as ENSO events then the cloud changes instanced by Spencer would not happen.

1998, for example, was a very warm year because an El Nino event in the Pacific released a lot of heat from the ocean.

The slow down is a century - long phenomenon — it would be instructive to have a break - down of its displacement in time — I bet that it is dominated by the 1980 - 2000 period and the 1998 super ENSO event — in which case, their explanation of the post-2002 stillstand on ocean heat content and recent la Nina would be interesting — though probably put down to random variability.

Volcanic eruptions and El Niño events are identified as sharp cooling events punctuating a long - term ocean warming trend, while heating continues during the recent upper - ocean - warming hiatus, but the heat is absorbed in the deeper ocean.

Assuming the heat capacity of lava to be 1/4 that of water, and the temperature ~ 1000K above that of the deep oceans, this event alone has the potential to warm the oceans ~ 18K.

In all the great mass extinction events but, possibly, one, this heat - driven filling up of the world ocean with deadly hydrogen sulfide gas during hothouse periods represents the major killing mechanism.

The Northeast is often affected by extreme events such as ice storms, floods, droughts, heat waves, hurricanes, and major storms in the Atlantic Ocean off the northeast coast, referred to as nor» easters.

El Nino events tend to cause atmospheric warming because they are transporting heat from the ocean back into the atmosphere.

«Record high ocean temperatures were experienced along the Western Australian coast during the austral summer of 2010/2011... This heat wave was an unprecedented thermal event in Western Australian waters, superimposed on an underlying long - term temperature rise.»